Protocol Buffers Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Protocol Buffers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 456 499
Rank change year-on-year +64 +43 -86
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 3 9 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.037% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.091% 0.20% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 16
10th Percentile £445 £455 £425
25th Percentile £475 £481 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% +46.07%
75th Percentile £581 £594 -
90th Percentile £585 £620 £706
UK median daily rate £750 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Protocol Buffers is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,292 4,457 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.29% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,161 3,345 4,534
10th Percentile £324 £354 £358
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £577
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 90 154
10th Percentile £20.91 £22.22 £20.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Protocol Buffers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK excluding London

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Protocol Buffers in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK excluding London

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
South East - 1 £575 -
Protocol Buffers
UK

Protocol Buffers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google App Engine
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker